Victorian diamond floral earrings
Tax included.
A pair of exquisite Victorian silver topped, yellow gold and old-cut diamond earrings. The single old-mine top suspending a double leaf motif and a diamond flower with three pendants. French wire. In original fitted box by West & Sons, Dublin. 1870 c.a. 5.5 cm
Paio di antichi orecchini pendenti in oro giallo e argento con diamanti. La parte superiore formata da una pietra singola ed una doppia foglia sostiene un pendente a forma di fiore con tre pampilles. Chiusura ad Amo, in scatola originale di West & Sons, Dublino. 1870 c.a. 5.5 cm
cfr D.Mascetti A.Triossi “Earrings”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London. PP 123-124. CASCADE OF FLOWERS : among the plethora of 1870 earrings those designed as cascades of flowers, flower head clusters with pampille decorations or sprays of leaves and flowers were particularly favoured by a more conservative public.
